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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe decide to do when he spots the French.
(a) To go right into the skirmish line.
(b) To surrender.
(c) To sneak in and kill their leaders.
(d) To head in another direction.

2. What does Sharpe say is the cause of the scars on his back?
(a) A mountain lion attack.
(b) A fall off a cliff.
(c) Torture by the French.
(d) Liars.

3. Who is in Lisbon?
(a) Marion.
(b) Josefina.
(c) Lucy.
(d) Teresa.

4. Who commands the Portuguese?
(a) Lieutenant Johnson.
(b) Captain Garrison.
(c) Captain Slocum.
(d) Lieutenant Tom Garrard.

5. Where does Sharpe go after the cathedral?
(a) The bakery.
(b) The trenches.
(c) Cox's office.
(d) To meet with Moreno.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much damage is done with the explosion?

2. What are the hills to guard?

3. Who does Sharpe say he will slowly dismember?

4. What does Sharpe say he must do?

5. What seems almost impossible that was accomplished?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Lines of Torres Vedras.

2. Why will the Lines of Torres Vedras stop the French?

3. Describe Teresa and Sharpe's conversation while they are in bed?

4. Describe Almeida.

5. Why is Lossow happy?

6. Why does Sharpe think there is no hope for his company and who saves them?

7. How does Sharpe shock both his men and the Partisans?

8. What happens when Sharpe goes to the telegraph station and who is he with?

9. What happens before the telegraph can be sent?

10. How does Sharpe discover that the French are nearby when Sharpe's company approaches the Coa River?

(see the answer keys)

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